BNVT Capital launches its debut $150M fund to solve some of humanity’s biggest problems

BNVT Capital announced the launch of its debut $150M fund to invest in AI-first and technology-driven companies solving humanity’s most pressing challenges.

BNVT’s approach is built on a groundbreaking study, “Benevolent Disruption: The Fortune in Solving the World’s Biggest Problems”, co-authored with Professor Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School and VenCap International PLC (a large VC allocator) and academics at MIT and Oxford University. Drawing on proprietary data on 500+ VC funds and 14,000 companies, over the last 40 years, the study unveils an enormous, and hitherto undiscovered, source of investment value: just 30% of venture-backed companies tackle big problems and these have historically delivered 51% higher returns compared to their peers.

BNVT Capital was founded by Managing Partners Rory Mounsey-Heysham (ex-Gates Foundation), Chris Corbishley (ex-Hedosophia) and General Partner Nasir Alsharif (Executive Chairman of Sackville Capital, ex-Goldman Sachs and Investcorp) and is seeded by Sackville Capital, a global investment firm based in London. Sackville Capital have a strategic focus on building partnerships with new and emerging investment businesses, bringing strategic and operational expertise alongside a strong network of international partners, to create tangible value. The fund has already invested in 11 companies across Europe and the US, including Swap Commerce (UK), Cloover (Germany), and Dawnguard (Netherlands), co-investing alongside global firms such as TPG, Iconiq, Lowercarbon, and QED.

Rory Mounsey-Heysham said: “LPs and entrepreneurs are crying out for investors who see the world’s biggest challenges not as a moral quandary, but as vast untapped markets. A big problem is simply a big market waiting to be served.”

Nasir Alsharif added: “I am hugely excited by the opportunity set that BNVT Capital have  identified. This is truly a differentiated investment thesis - backed up by extraordinarily real-world data. The countercyclical nature of the thesis - creating outsized returns from solving the biggest problems – is applicable across multiple sectors, and is particularly exciting.”

The funds origins came from Rory seeing the outsized returns Bill Gates was generating from investing in solutions to global problems, and then Chris seeing the same pattern play out in his own portfolio at Hedosophia. This new fund and investment concept comes at an interesting time when politicians and the investor community alike are at war as to the role of business in society. BNVT Capital position their thesis as a ‘third way’ between the ESG antithesis and unfettered capitalism.

Chris Corbishley said: “Investors have missed a striking pattern in their own data. For too long, investors have been backing fads, not needs - distracted by incremental technologies making life marginally faster, cheaper, or easier. Venture capital is about swinging for the fences—backing solutions that can reshape society for the better. That is what Benevolent Disruption is about.”

The fund’s thesis has attracted support from leading entrepreneurs and investors, including founders and leaders at Shopify, Google, Octopus Energy, Remitly, and institutional support from Starwood Capital, Investcorp, TPG, and others.

BNVT Capital is launching the Benevolent Disruption platform and community. BNVT Capital plans to expand its portfolio to 25–30 companies globally in the coming 2 years, continuing to prove that solving the world’s biggest problems provides one of the most lucrative opportunities in venture investing.

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